Some of the American companies I buy stuff from say they're obligated to collect GST and remit it to CRA (Canada Revenue Agency).If an Australian walks into a shop in the UK and purchases goods, to be delivered to their Australian address, should the goods carry GST? The boundaries are a bit tricky.
That's why I get a lot of the books I buy from either American or UK Amazon Marketplace sellers, or other secondhand book dealers in the U.S., UK, or Australia: they're not required to collect GST.
But how much data did you put there that they could use? They've got my name, the city where I live, my birthday, and a photo of my late cat, which I use as my avatar. I've never posted any other photos. I think the last personal message exchanged with anyone was a few years ago - one of those "happy birthday"/"thanks" things.In essence, yes, since Facebook is monetizing my data and I don't see any of that money. They're stealing money from me when I use Facebook.
The housekeeper/organizing person who comes over twice a month to help out here keeps pushing me to use the Buy & Sell groups on Facebook, if I want to find a cat or bookshelves.
I haven't done that, because I don't understand how that even works. How can you work out an arrangement with someone if everything is public? And why should anyone even know you're interested in something, other than you and the one who posted the offer?
Did anyone tell you he'd died in the first place? Or did they just assume you would read about it on FB?Among the reasons (there are others, as well) I don't touch Facebook and never have. I have never created a profile or account. I have never logged in. Not once. I don't exist in Zuckerberg's Evil Empire. It even annoyed me that I actually missed my uncle's funeral because my mother, sibling, other uncles and aunts, and cousins arranged and set-up the whole affair on a Facebook coordination thingy of some sort...
I've told people to never assume I would see anything on FB, even if we're on each other's friends list, because I read updates so seldom. I figure that if something is important enough to need my attention or input, they can phone or email.